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The short, nonsense rhyme “Hey Diddle Diddle” might be the most recognizable nursery rhyme of them all. It even gave birth to a common phrase—”over the moon”—which is part of the rhyme ...

Rhyme or Die is a horror comedy short created by filmmaker Max Lincoln, with writer Alex Moran. It was made early on during the pandemic, filmed in a shut down nightclub, first premiering in 2021 ...

The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes is famous for saying that life can be “Nasty, brutish, and short ... Which is where we begin the nursery rhyme at hand. First published in 1805 in ...

Eight lines were often enough. Cochran's philosophy was "Make it short, make it sweet and make it rhyme." Cochran sought simplicity and specificity, and when he arrived at those things he'd stop ...

Read on to learn the surprising meaning behind this rainy rhyme. The earliest written record of “It’s Raining, It’s Pouring” comes from Edwina Stanton Babcock’s short story “The Provin ...

What unites these descriptions of poetry is that none uses the word “rhyme”. When A.E. Housman, a poet, gave a 51-page lecture titled “The Name and Nature of Poetry” in 1933 he used the ...